First pick
Parc du Vent
Park or garden · 360 m outside the commune
21 ha4.7 km of path
1 hto walk all 4.7 km of path
1.9 km westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Photo: Havang(nl) · CC025%of the land protected
Outdoors in Leffrinckoucke · protected areas, woods and footpaths
Leffrinckoucke is on the coast
Footpaths add up to 25 km across Leffrinckoucke (3.4 km per km²). Waymarked hiking routes add up to 7 km in Leffrinckoucke. Mapped woodland covers 0.6% of Leffrinckoucke. France has no Outdoors Grade yet: these are the figures, each beside the compared towns’ median.
Protected areas
25%
of the commune’s land
Compared town: 0.1%
Woodland
0.6%
of the land, mapped on OpenStreetMap
Compared town: 13%
Footpaths
25 km
3.4 km per km²
Compared town: 1.7 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.2 km
waymarked, GR and others
Compared town: 0.3 km per km²
Green space nearby
71%
of residents within 800 m of a park or wood
Compared town: 100%
The sea
On it
the commune touches the coast, 1.1 km from its center
Throughout this page, the Nord median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median.
What kind of place
What kind of outdoors place is Leffrinckoucke?
Read from the data: what stands out first, good and less good.
On the coastThe commune touches the sea; the coast is 1.1 km from its center.A place of footpaths3.4 km per km² of mapped footpath, against 1.7 km per km² for the median compared town.On waymarked routes7 km of GR and other hiking routes cross the commune.Little mapped woodland0.6% of the land, against 13% for the median compared town.
What sets Leffrinckoucke apart: the sea, then its footpaths. It is shorter on woodland.
Against French towns
How Leffrinckoucke compares with French towns
Each figure against the 3,798 compared French towns (communes with an overall grade): the marked bar is the town’s, the line the median. Described, not graded.
Protected areas25%Share of the land in a national park, regional nature park, nature reserve or Natura 2000 site
80out of 100
Woodland0.6%Share of the land mapped as forest or woods on OpenStreetMap
4out of 100
Footpaths3.4 km per km²Km of mapped footpath and track open on foot, per km² of the commune
79out of 100
Hiking routes1 km per km²Km of waymarked hiking routes (GR and others), per km² of the commune
83out of 100
Green space nearby71%Share of residents within 800 m of a mapped park or wood
2out of 100
Percentiles among compared French towns; ties count half.
Towns its size
Leffrinckoucke has the 6th most footpaths per km² of 41 towns its size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population (4,045 to 4,114 residents), by km of footpath per km². Hover for each one’s protected land and woods; click for its page.
From Longeville-lès-Metz (7.3 km per km²) to Bâgé-Dommartin (0.1 km per km²).
Every town in the comparison
| Town | Paths (km/km²) | Woodland | Protected | Coast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Longeville-lès-Metz Moselle | 7.3 | 9.3% | 0% | 327 km |
| 2 | Le Croisic Loire-Atlantique | 6.7 | 3.3% | 3.3% | On it |
| 3 | Seignosse Landes | 4.4 | 70% | 9.7% | On it |
| 4 | Le Revest-les-Eaux Var | 4 | 27% | 28% | 5.3 km |
| 5 | Bouxières-aux-Dames Meurthe-et-Moselle | 3.5 | 30% | 0% | 359 km |
| 6 | Leffrinckoucke Nord | 3.4 | 0.6% | 25% | On it |
| 7 | Saint-Georges-d'Oléron Charente-Maritime | 3.4 | 25% | 40% | On it |
| 8 | Offemont Territoire de Belfort | 2.9 | 39% | 0% | 433 km |
| 9 | Juziers Yvelines | 2.6 | 38% | 66% | 117 km |
| 10 | Aramon Gard | 2.4 | 2.4% | 15% | 51 km |
| 11 | Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne Alpes-Maritimes | 2.2 | 70% | 100% | 18 km |
| 12 | Verson Calvados | 2 | 0.7% | 0% | 19 km |
| 13 | Monéteau Yonne | 1.9 | 37% | 0% | 293 km |
| 14 | Bouchain Nord | 1.8 | 18% | 0% | 105 km |
| 15 | Abscon Nord | 1.6 | 6.4% | 0% | 100 km |
| 16 | Issou Yvelines | 1.6 | 21% | 0% | 116 km |
| 17 | Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre Eure-et-Loir | 1.6 | 26% | 0.8% | 99 km |
| 18 | Baccarat Meurthe-et-Moselle | 1.6 | 39% | 17% | 412 km |
| 19 | Staffelfelden Haut-Rhin | 1.5 | 34% | 0% | 449 km |
| 20 | Loctudy Finistère | 1.4 | 1.4% | 0.3% | On it |
| 21 | Avermes Allier | 1.2 | 4.2% | 13% | 338 km |
| 22 | Le Cellier Loire-Atlantique | 1.2 | 29% | 12% | 57 km |
| 23 | Survilliers Val-d'Oise | 1.1 | 23% | 71% | 135 km |
| 24 | Pleslin-Trigavou Côtes-d'Armor | 0.9 | 15% | 100% | 5.1 km |
| 25 | Domfront en Poiraie Orne | 0.9 | 13% | 100% | 52 km |
| 26 | Caissargues Gard | 0.9 | 10% | 1.7% | 34 km |
| 27 | Générac Gard | 0.8 | 4.5% | 19% | 27 km |
| 28 | Val-Couesnon Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.7 | 7.2% | 1.5% | 19 km |
| 29 | Plélan-le-Grand Ille-et-Vilaine | 0.7 | 12% | 0.2% | 55 km |
| 30 | Chevry-Cossigny Seine-et-Marne | 0.6 | 32% | 0% | 175 km |
| 31 | Eauze Gers | 0.6 | 24% | 9.8% | 117 km |
| 32 | Allassac Corrèze | 0.4 | 21% | 2.2% | 164 km |
| 33 | Cuxac-d'Aude Aude | 0.4 | 4.6% | 14% | 17 km |
| 34 | Les Mées Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | 0.4 | 49% | 17% | 91 km |
| 35 | Trouy Cher | 0.4 | 2.7% | 0.1% | 280 km |
| 36 | Campbon Loire-Atlantique | 0.4 | 6.8% | 1.6% | 21 km |
| 37 | Hourtin Gironde | 0.3 | 66% | 100% | On it |
| 38 | Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine Indre-et-Loire | 0.3 | 9.9% | 0% | 161 km |
| 39 | Saint-Joachim Loire-Atlantique | 0.2 | 0.1% | 100% | 8.8 km |
| 40 | Benet Vendée | 0.2 | 0.7% | 100% | 41 km |
| 41 | Bâgé-Dommartin Ain | 0.1 | 13% | 0% | 315 km |
The map
Parks, woods, footpaths & countryside
Tap a number to zoom to a park or wood. Tap a layer to hide it. The dashed line is the commune’s boundary.
Green: parks, gardens and woods mapped on OpenStreetMap, named or not.© OpenStreetMap contributors · INPN / PatriNat · IGN
Places to walk
Parks and woods to walk in, in and around Leffrinckoucke
Named parks, gardens and woods in the commune or within 400 m, the biggest and best-pathed first: Parc du Vent leads, at 21 ha. Directions go to a point inside.
Complex sportif des Maraîchers
Park or garden · 320 m outside the commune
7.4 ha0.1 km of path
0.9 km south-westfrom the center
Directionsto a point inside
Jardin aux Moineaux
Park or garden
0.7 ha0.4 km of path
Centralin the middle of Leffrinckoucke
Directionsto a point inside
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL): named parks, gardens and woods; sizes are the whole site.
Close to home
7 in 10 residents of Leffrinckoucke live within 800 m of a park or wood
Each square is 1 resident in 100: in green, those within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or woodland edge (INSEE’s 200 m population grid against OpenStreetMap).
71% within 800 m29% further
Residents within 800 m of green space · share of residents
LeffrinckouckeNord medianFrance median
Within 800 m71%
0%50%100%
About 1,200 residents live further away. The distance is a straight line to the edge of a mapped park or wood, not a walk to a gate, and a wood can be private.
Protected areas
25% of Leffrinckoucke lies in protected areas
The protected areas reaching the commune, and the nearest: national parks, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites.
Natura 2000 site
Dunes de la plaine maritime flamande
25% of the commune0.2 km from the center
Natura 2000 site
Bancs des Flandres
1.1 km from the town center
Share of the commune’s land
Any protected area25%
Natura 2000 site25%
Designations overlap (a regional park can hold a Natura 2000 site), so the rows don’t add up; the first counts each piece of land once.
25% of Leffrinckoucke’s land is protected, more than in 80% of compared French towns; the median compared town in Nord has 0%.
Source: INPN / PatriNat, protected areas July 2026, Natura 2000 December 2024; shares of IGN’s commune boundary.
Footpaths and woods
25 km of footpaths and 7 km of hiking routes cross Leffrinckoucke
Paths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, and waymarked hiking routes, mapped on OpenStreetMap inside the commune; woods are mapped forest and woodland, private woods included.
Footpaths
25 km
3.4 km per km²
Hiking routes
7.2 km
waymarked: 1 km per km²
Woodland
0.6%
about 0 km² of mapped woods
Km per km² of the commune · mapped on OpenStreetMap
LeffrinckouckeNord medianFrance median
Footpaths3.4
Hiking routes1
024 km per km²
Share of the land · mapped woods and forest
LeffrinckouckeNord medianFrance median
Woodland0.6%
0%50%100%
That is more than in 79% of compared French towns for footpaths per km², and for woodland less than in 96% of compared French towns. Hiking routes often follow paths and lanes already counted, so the two lengths overlap: don’t add them.
2 named hiking routes within 2 km
GR (long-distance)
E28.1 km
GR 1208.1 km
2 GR routes pass within 2 km of Leffrinckoucke: E2 and GR 120.
Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), extracts of October 25, 2026 (Geofabrik).
When to get out
The best walking months in Leffrinckoucke: May to September
Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at Dunkerque, 7.4 km away, and the daylight at the town’s latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 15 to 30 °C and little rain for the place.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 8.4 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 13.8 | 15.5 | 16.5 | 16.1 | 14.5 | 12.5 | 10.6 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| High (°C) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 19 | 16 | 11 | 8 |
| Rain (mm) | 54 | 45 | 42 | 37 | 46 | 55 | 59 | 64 | 65 | 73 | 80 | 73 |
April is the driest month (37 mm) and August the warmest (highs of 22 °C). 80 mm of rain falls in November, the wettest month. Frost comes on about 17 nights a year. The climate in Leffrinckoucke →
Neighbors
Next to Leffrinckoucke
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by the share of their land in protected areas.
Téteghem-Coudekerque-VillageCoudekerque-BrancheDunkerqueBray-DunesGhyveldeCappelle-la-GrandeLeffrinckoucke
Under 1%1–10 %10–25 %25–50 %50 %+
| Town | Protected | Woodland | Paths (km/km²) | Coast |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leffrinckoucke | 25% | 0.6% | 3.4 | On it |
| Téteghem-Coudekerque-Village 8,247 · 3.6 km | 0% | 9.1% | 2.8 | 4.1 km |
| Coudekerque-Branche 20,787 · 5 km | 0% | 14% | 5.1 | 2.2 km |
| Dunkerque 86,263 · 5.3 km | 1.5% | 1.8% | 4.8 | On it |
| Bray-Dunes 4,189 · 5.9 km | 41% | 0% | 3.6 | On it |
| Ghyvelde 4,133 · 5.9 km | 6.9% | 0.2% | 1.3 | 3.7 km |
| Cappelle-la-Grande 7,839 · 7.8 km | 0% | 0.2% | 2 | 4.6 km |
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protected areas. National-park cores, national parks’ outer areas, regional nature parks, nature reserves and Natura 2000 sites, from INPN. A national park’s core is strictly protected; its outer area and a regional park are charters between communes, not bans. Designations overlap, so the total counts each piece of land once.
- Woodland. Forest and woods as OpenStreetMap maps them, private woods included: woods nobody has mapped are missing, and a mapped wood isn’t necessarily open to walkers.
- Footpaths and hiking routes. Footpaths, bridleways, steps and tracks open on foot, then waymarked hiking routes (GR and others) measured apart. A route often follows a path or lane already counted: the two overlap. Paths nobody has mapped are missing.
- Green space nearby. The share of residents (INSEE’s 200 m grid) within 800 m, as the crow flies, of a mapped park, garden or wood edge. It measures nearness, not a way in. Guadeloupe and French Guiana have no grid: their pages say whether the town center is within 800 m.
- The coast. The straight-line distance from the town center to OpenStreetMap’s coastline, which follows the tide line into estuaries. A commune is on the coast when the coastline crosses its boundary.
- No grade yet. U.S. and UK towns have an Outdoors Grade; French towns don’t yet. Each figure is set beside the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade) in the département and in France, each figure its own median.
Questions about the outdoors in Leffrinckoucke
Is Leffrinckoucke in a national or regional nature park?
No, but 25% of its land is in a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site.
Are there good walks in Leffrinckoucke?
OpenStreetMap maps 25 km of footpaths and tracks open on foot in the commune, 3.4 km per km² (the median compared town: 1.7 km per km²); 7 km of waymarked hiking routes cross it.
How much of Leffrinckoucke is woodland?
0.6% of the commune is mapped woodland, private woods included; the median compared French town has 13%.
Is Leffrinckoucke near the sea?
Yes: the commune touches the coast, 1.1 km from its center.
When is the best time for walking in Leffrinckoucke?
May to September: long days, mild highs and little rain, from Météo-France’s 1991–2020 normals at the nearest suitable station.
Why is there no Outdoors Grade for French towns?
TownRatings grades the outdoors in the U.S. and the UK; the French figures are new and not graded yet. This page sets each one beside the median compared French town instead.
Sources: INPN / PatriNat (protected areas 2026, Natura 2000 2024) · © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (paths, hiking routes, woods, coast, gardens) · INSEE, Filosofi 2021 200 m grid (residents) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Météo-France normals 1991–2020 · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.